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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-03-31
ABOUT POSTAGE STAMPS.
THE BUSINESS OF PHILATELH AND
ITS FOLLOWERS.

The Invention OF Postage stamps-rhe
First Designs-Stamps Of Different
Countries-Old Time Postal Routes.
The United States Ahead in Variety.
The legend about 100000 Of Cancelled
postage stamps being valuable property, IS
still believed in by many confding souls,
old and young. Somebody started the no
years ago, and, being an attractive one, It Is
not permitted to die. Touching stories, without
any foundation in fact, float around IN tne
newspapers telling how some impoverisneu oIu
woman collected 100000 OF canceiea post
age stamps, and then sold them ior MONEY
her admittance TO
a home for aged
&fHA women This has
HEN%YlO q stimulating effect
HV MA.b on other impover-
SH ished old women,
NH Nv and they set to work
to collect stamps,
Ms1Se~ and are over
6oz,r5 whelmed with as
EARLY ENGLISH. tonishment and
grief when they find that they might as well
have been engaged in polishing the stove
legs, as far as any financial benefit was con-
cerned
Small boys are often enthusiastic stamp
hunters. They, too, cherish belief that the
stamps can be turned into money. Rare
stamps are marketable; but not of.en at the
fabulous prices quoted In this city there are
collectors who devote themselves entirely to
stamps and fill whole shops with them; but
they value them on the score of rarity, not
quantity
Certain stamp maniacs make dados and
friezes of them, and only recently the writer
saw small table covered with them, legs and
all, and then vanished to the ultimate limits
Of varnish. But the spectacle was hardly a
sight to benefit gods and men, or even fools.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-03-31

The Erie Canal is the pride of the
people of the State of New York, and
even in these days of rapid transit the
old waterway continues to be the lead
ing route for heavy shipments of grain.
During the past year the receipts of
grain by canal at the port of New York
were 43,619,355 bushels as against 81
9S6, ,766 by rail. The increase of canal
shipments over the preceding year was
over 14,000,000 bushels, while the de-
crease by rail was over G, 100000 bushels.
These reports speak volumes for the
efficiency of the water routes. The
Erie Canal has three direct competi-
tors in New York-the Central, the
Erie and the West Shore Railroads, but
all combined, and the Pennsylvania
and other roads added, carried to the
metropolis less grain than the old Erie
Canal. The State encourages the inland
water routes and thereby makes them
profitable.
Now, what New York does on great
scale, Ohio might do in a somewhat
smaller degree. There are two leading
canals in this State, one in the eastern
and the other in the western part of
the State, each running from Lake Erie
to the Ohio River. If they were i'm
proved, rather than allowed to decay,
they would be profitable to the people.
The days of properly maintained water
ways have not passed away, but the
manner in which Ohio has treated the
question during the past fifteen years
affords but little hope that anything
will ever be done to improve them in
this State.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-03-31

Subscribe for the NORTHWEST 81 so.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-03-31

Trains leave Wheeling for st. olairsvle at 100 a.
m, rs p. m. and 4:i5 p. daily, except Sunday
Accommodation leaves GAINESVILLE at $500 q. m.
daily, except Sunday, and arrives at Columbus ut
S:05 q. m, Cincinnati 1920 p. m.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-03-31
Saturday, April 16, 1887,
LEGAL NOTICE.

Chas. E. Bronson, Attorney for Plaintiff.
Napoleon, o., March IS, 1857.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-03-31

L. L. ORwIG,
Napoleon, Ohio.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-10-23
Alfalfa Plentiful.

Steve EIDE informed Journal re-
porter yesterday that it was an in
jury to ranchers in the Truckee Val
ley to have newspapers say that
there was nothing but pasture here,
and that the alfalfa and hay was all
sold. On the contrary, he said, the
very lowest calculation of the guam
tity at the disposal of the cattle and
sheep men coming this way is TO-
900 tons. The pasturage is in the
most excellent condition, while the
hay cannot be beat, and commands
from IS to 81 per ton.-Journal.
If the above is true will the editor
of the Journal who is also President
of the Nevada Agricultural Associa-
ton tell us why alfalfa hay was $40
a ton at the State Fair.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-10-23

The passengers Oh yesterday
east bound train had to remain here
dunng the afternoon, and several oil
them took look at the town and
learned something about the re-
sources of the country. They were
astonished upon learning that grain
and vegetables were produced in
the valleys where water can be pro-
cured for irrigation, and that herds
of cattle and flocks of sheep thrlved
on the plains, and some even were
surprised to hear that there were
mines of gold and silver in the
mountains.-Independent.
Ii the State was properly adver-
tised people would not be astonish-
ed at what they see here. They
would come prepared to see some
thing besides waste, but as long
as nigga dly Legislature will never
appropriate a dollar for State adj
vertisement the old state of things
will exist.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-10-23
The Great Cryptoxram.

The APP EAL has received vol
ume of Ignatius Donnelly's great
literary sensation in which he solves
the CIPHER by which Bacon reveals
to the world the authorship of Sba-
kespeare. 1t is an astounding work
and the study of the cypher in
which the true meaning is unfolded,
page after page, is of the most alb
sorbing interest and some of the
revelations made almost takes the
breath away. Anyone interested
in Shakespearian lore can peruse
this book at this Office but it will
not be loaned to anyone. The ex.
perience we have had in loaninp
books is not calculated to inspire u,
with confidence in the book borrow.
ing community of Carson.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-10-23


Wizard Oil at Geo. Thaxter's.
They now claim big bonanza
in Crown Point
The dark flag is above the
white at the Capitol.
Capt. Pray and Henry Van
SICKLE. of Douglas, were in the city
yesterday.
Over 10000 acres OF State
land was filed on last week. Most
of it by sharp-sighted Californians.
The APPEAL office received a
very pleasant call, yesterday, from
the ad vance agent of the mirror of
Ireland.''
I'm fight last Thursday in In
dian Territory, between outlaws and
Vigilants, seven or eight men were
killed on a side.
The Sutro Tunnel is expected
soon to pay off its mortgage and be
on its feet. If you have any old
Su.ro stock in your trunk, dig it
up.
Yesterday Senator Stewards
law Office was. removed from Print
ers' Row to his house. In a few
weeks the Senator will move hls
family to Washington.
Sacramento county people are
agitating the question of asking the
railroad company to allow immi-
grants of third-class the privilege of
stopping over there to learn more
of the foot-hill belt of country.
I'm time no reputable physician
in this country will consider it be-
meath his dignity to advertise. The
prejudice that medical men once
felt against intelligent advertising
is fast disappearing.-Dail Report.
The APPEAL was the only paper
in the State that published q list of
the premiums awarded at the Wa
buska Fair. The managers of the
Fair have ordered 900 copies of
the paper for distribution in Mason
Valley.
Gov. Waterman has thrown
about 40 men out of office in Cali
fornia for not filing their bonds ard
qualifying as the law directs. Cor
rect. A man who does not know
enough to file a bond when APP
pointed is not fit for the office.
"A member of the New Y ork An
archist Club has been convicted of
burning property for commission
on the insurance money. 1t will
now be in order for his friends to
get up public meetings to protest
against the invasion of the rights of
man involved in his punishment.
Owing to the great success of
the 'ssurprise sale," and at the re-
quest of our many patrons have ex-
tended the same for one week long
err. This will positively be the last
of our hosiery and handkerchief
sale, so don't fail to take advantage
of it. NJ. Conn. at
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-10-23

The first page of a st. Paul
newspaper was recently dotted
with portraits of many men. The
first line of the display he aiding
that accompanied the pictures and
reading matter, read, in very large
letters, "a Rogue's Gallery"
Then followed the words, "always
contains some pretty tough-looking
physiognomies," and then, after
some other striking lines, came the
word in smaller type, "but this gal
lery is of different character; the
pictures represent the members Of
the Minnesota Legislature"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-10-23

When Baby was sick, We gave her CastoriA
When she was . Child, she cried for Castor,4.
When the became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
Whsn she had Children, she gave them Castori
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-10-23

cleveland has not made much
out of his swing around the circle.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-10-23

Ophir-S
Mexican Il 80
7ould & Curry s.
Con. Cal. G. Va.-16s
Savage-Ss
Chollar-6
Hale & Norcross-4 40
Grown Point-l12
BeIcher-l0s
Seq. Belcher 3 so
Exchequer-l So
North Belle Isle-11s
Yellow Jacket-5s
Sierra Nevada-4 40
Nevada Qaeen-5i
Best & Belcher-7
Overman-1 80
UnioD-3 so
Scorpion-70c
PotOsi-6s
Be0ton-4
Bodice 20
Bullion-2 Is Is
Utah. IS
JUSTICE A.
Andes-l Is
CaledonIa-50c
Bulwer-1
Mono
BALTIMORE 20
ConSdence-Ss
Julia-60c
Alta 81
Peer less-1 30
Challenge z 35
Kentucky
Alpha-65
Commonwealth-2 80
Found Treasure--2 10
Silver Hill Zoe
Lady Washington-85c
Weldon-9,c
Navajo Is
Tioga-15c
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-10-23

Virginia, New, Oct, 2Oth., 1887.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-21
The City of Rock Island.

Rock land is city of is 900 inhabitants, stu
ated at the geographical center of the Middle
States in the midst Of the richest grain producing
tween Chicago and Omaha, Milwaukee and Kansas
City st. Louis and St. Paul. being 1871 miles from
Chicago and 800 from Omaha; 2I4from Milwaukee
and $40 from Kansas City; e47 from st. Louis and
s46 from st Paul. II is 81 miles from Peoria and
is in direct communication with and between all
the great commercial points named. 1t is within
twenty-five miles of the understandable coal fields
at Gable and fife, miles Of the lime and stone
qnarries al Port Byron. 1t lie situated on the Mis-
sisspp at the foot Of the island of mock Island
which is situated the largest government arsenal
in the world, and has ware' ouses and agencies for
The two great steamboat lines OF the Upper Missis
sipp. It's manufactures varied and prosper
Its jobbing trade is large, and room for more
It's retail trade is extensive and enarging Its nat
ural advantages are unsurpassed. Its social I'D
vantages unexcelled. Its schools and churches
are many and all well established. 1t has the C.,
K. & P: C., NJ. & st. p; c.. B. & @; r. /. &
P, and r ] & Cable railroads, II has three differ
ent lines of street cars. 1t has good systems Of
electric and gas illumination. Its sanitary regnla
lions are excellent and the locality naturally
healthy Its hotels are modern and frst-class
II has a handsome opera house 1t has beau
riful residences and resident property. Its bust
ness blocks are many of them new and all sub
stantisl. II offers better inducements to business
comfort, happiness, health and prosperity than
any other locality in the country
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-21
CONDENSED NEWS,

Tie first sunstroke of the season occurred al
New York Friday
n De Frevciuet has declined to form a
ministry in France.
The queen of the Sandwich islands will sail
from New York on Wednesday, with her suite,
for Europe
Col Richard West the famous breeder Of
jaw Eve5ee aud other well known trotters,
died AT Lexington Ky, Friday
Seventeen thousand dollars in gold and cur
rency were stolen from the house of John W
Spayd a wealthy citizen of Greenvile, Ohio,
Thursday night
The Virginia senate Friday passed a joint
resolution reaflirmIng the determination of
the state to stand by the Riddleberger law,
and calling on the people to pay their taxes in
money and not in coupons
The Suspension order issued by the inter
state commerce commission in the case of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads
has been enlarged so as to embrace the Den
Yer q Rio Grande railroad
A dispatch from the City of Mexico saws
one OF the leading hanks Of that city has been
robbed of about 800. 0l0, which was taken
from tilh NtultH several nights ago rev de
tails are gwen rs the detectives who are
working up the case" have imposed silence
upon all who are acquainted with the facts
The Knights of Labor in Chicago have in a
measure taken mp the cause of the locked-out
lricklayers. ard are discussing the propriety
ct retaining counsel to prosecute for conSpir
ecv the material dealers who refuse to sell
brick, lime, sand. etc, unless they he granted
permit to do so by the builders ana traders
exchange
There Is every prospect Of a thorough de
moralization in western railway rates soon.
The Burlington q Northern, which has little
local business, threatens to cut the through
rate, st, Paul TO Chicago, and the Milwaukee
n st Paul will retalIate by making cut on
the Omaha business In that event a general
war would efse
K. G. Dun a Co, in their weekly trade re,
view. take generally favorable view of the
situation The most important effects of the
inter state commerce act noted are the "de
cline of trade of larger centers of distribution
and manufacture and increase of distribution
ut smaller towns, with uprising of new manu-
featuring works at many localities
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-21
WIPED OUT THE TOWN.
LAKE LINDEN, MICHIGAN, REDUCED
TO A PILE OF ASHES.

Two Hundred and Seventy Houses Licked
Up by the Flames and Their Occupants
Homeloss-A Loss of Two Million Dol
lars Suffered-Further Disasters in the
Woods--Fire at Adrian.
MARQUETTE, Mich, MAY 20.-Friday
morning Lake Linden, Houghton county, on
Torch lake, was thriving mining town of
$500 inhabitants; at night it was heap of
smoking ruins, only one saloon and one meat
market remaining of the entire business por-
ton Nearly 800 families lost every thing
except what they had on their backs The
fire originated in the second story of New
man & Trelease's general store, and under
stiff wind swept everything before it. In two
hours from the discovery of the fire the whole
town was in ruins. Beginning at the place
above mentioned, the fire took everything
To the school-house on the outskirts covering
an area of ten or twelve blocks, churches,
stores saloons. everything was consumed and
nothing whatever was saved The town was
comprised of frame buildings, and everything
was so dry that it burned like finder. The
people We're panic stricken and, there being
no adequate means of fighting the fire, were
utterly helpless The Houghton and Hancock
fire department arrived as soon as possible,
and through their efforts the property of the
Calumet and Hecla Mining company which
was in the track of the fire, was saved.
The following are some of the principal
OF,
idence SIS 900, Newman & Trelease, general
store and building, 1900; R. Reding 8, Co.,
general store, $4,000; Nueman & Hart,
clothing, $4,000; D. W. Sutton's bank,
dwelling and buildings, $4,000; Thereault &
Deschamp, drug store. $1,000; Lake Linden
hotel, building and furniture, 100; Joseph
Bosch & Co, brewers, s65. coo; T. C. Corciel,
$4,000; Paul Herrault, brick block, $1,000;
Arthur Henwood, hardware store. 5000;
George Dugnitte hotel and livery, sS,0o0.
There are twenty-five or thirty business
hou SEES lose from 81, 900 to 81, O00 each About
270 buildings in all are totally destroyed The
loss will reach $2,0O00oO, with insurance of
5000 to s7O0.00O
Reports from forest fires are bad, but the
damage is confined principally to valuable
pine and hardwood lands.
EAST SAGINAW, Mich, May 2l-Fires in
the woods are raging with renewed vigor and
great destruction of property The lumber
camps of Eddy Bros. If Bay City,
near Glare, burned THURSDAY night.
Sewell q Avery lumber camps Oh
the Tittabawassee burned Thursday Around
Lake station fires are doing considerable
| damage to timber. On the Chippewa and
| Pine rivers about S,oo0W0 feet of standing
| timber, owned by Whitney q Stnchtield and
William Peter, burned A large tract OF
| pine owned by Fl. ". Sage on Rife river Is
burned over, and 100 men are fighting the fire
| In the vicinity of Patton, Clare county, the
| fire Is dong great amount of damage 1t Is
reported that Sitlev & Bearinger lost 1000.
600 feet Of logs near Chehoygau I. J Cor,
| HAMS sav-mill and quantity of lumber AT
Lake City burned Thursday Loss, 5000
no Insurance.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-21
THE WEALTH OF THE NATION


W,surv,.rox Cry MAY Tho 5;rocto,
of the mint has compIeted his rerort ON the
production OF the precious metals for the wear
ended Dec. 81. 1886. The director estimates
the production for the wear to have been,
Gold. 81, ont 900. silver. s5I tAAO npO. The
production of gold shows a considerable lit
crease over the prior year, namely So POO 900
The production of silver is slightly less than
III 1885.
Colorado retains first rank as the largest
producer of the precious metals in the United
States, the value of It's production of gold
and silver having been over S2000d, OH dur
ing the hast year California Yields second
place TO Montana, which reports pruuc-
tion of 81 $4,000, against sltmm,o 600 by
California The production of Nevada and
New Mexico has decreased while that Of the
other states has rem aimed almost constant
Texas, for the first time, is added to the list of
producing states with production of S2UU,-
600 in silver
The annual supply of silver from the mines
of the world has largely increased in the last
fourteen years-the period covered by the
marked decline in the market price of silver
having doubled since 1872; that is from S62,
000,00 in that year to Sl24, D00, 900 in 1886
During the calendar year 1886 the changes in
the price of silver were very marked Open
ing on the 81 January, 1886. at II I5-If pence
Der ounce. British standard. the fluctuations
were slight until April, when commenced a
rapid decline, which continued until July 81
when the price of silver reached ~ pence re-
NAMING at that price until Aup 10 when an
advance took nlace which confirmed until
Nov 70 when the urice reached Il rap.e hut
remained at that point only short time.
The closing quotation on Dec 81 was a.
pence. The average price for the year was
1914 pence. equivalent to 80 4d4 cents Der
ounce fine, at which rate the ratio between
gold and silver was as of gold to 20 IS of sill
YER The price of silver at the present time
is 439z pence per ounce British standard.
equivalent to $50 cents per ounce.
The value of the gold deposited at the
mints of the United States during the calen.
dar year lSS6 was s7g057, SIS, of which over
81. 600, 600 consisted of foreign bullion and
over S9,000000 foreign coin The deposits
and purchases of silver amounted to $50. 0s6..
070. The coinage executed at the mnts dur
ing the calendar year consisted of 81. 73a, SOC
pieces, of tine face value of SOL .375, 49, The
number of silver dollars coined was 81, AZ, $50,
on which the selgnorage was 81, 095. 36l.
The director estimates the stock of coin in
the United States on Jan. |, 1887, to have
neeh' IN round hgures: Goid, s560,NUU0;
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-21
ANARCHY IN CHICAGO.
SENSATIONAL ARTICLE FROM THE
KNIGHTS OF LABOR ORGAN.

May A, 1886, to Be Repeated with Ad-
ditions and Variations of Terrible I'm
port-The Alleged Plan of the Conspir-
ators-A Brutal Piece of Business in the
Pennsylvania Coke District.
CHICAGO, May 2l-The Star the organ of
the Knights of Labor of this city, publishes
secret circular lately issued by the Interna-
uonal Workmen's Protective association in
reference to the forming of small organiza-
tons throughout the city for the purpose of
'overtuning the whole social fabric" The
Star says: THAT the horrifying scenes of the
Haymarket massacre, which took place on
that memorable night one year ago this
month, are shortly to be re- enacted, is fact
which will establish itself clearly in the
minds of every one when it becomes generally
known that the Reds and Anarchists
are recognizing their forces through
out the city Secret meetings are held
nightly, and incendlary speeches delivered by
men who are as utterly devoid of principle as
only genuine Anarchist can be- Just where
and at what hour these meetings are being
held can not at present be determined, but
that revolutionary measures are being adopt
ed by the International Workmen's Protective
association is an undeniable fact The ut
most secrecy is observed, and to escape the
fear of detection only six members are al
lowed to be present at any one meeting, thus
avoiding all suspicion which would be occa-
stoned by the gathering of crowd. Disre-
garding the fate of their so-ealled martyre1
comrades they are contemplating plan of or
ganization and attack which will inevitably
bring about a repetition of the scenes enacted
at the Haymarket on the 4th day of last
May"
The secret circular which The Star pub
fishes is addressed TO all members of the IT.
ternationa Workmen'S Protective aSSocia-
ton, and u'g es the following plan Of organ
ization:
No group to exceed five members After
the first five are organized, let them select a
central organizer and separate again, each
individual starting another group of his own,
numbering FIVE By this system never more
than six will come together The organizer
alone becomes familiar with the twenty five.
So on and on until the city is honeycombed
with groups into which detective can not
penetrate beyond very limited length"
The circular concludes with these words:
Toward our despoilers we owe no love, we
claim no pity, we extend no olive branch
Time passes. The necessity is urgent"
The Star says: at is alleged that the most
rahld members of the organization are in IA
vor OF providing themselves with bombs and
other implements of hellish warfare. Prom
iuent members of the International order are
known to he in cOnSta Mt and Secrat cOmmuni.
cation with Herr Most, the Anarchistic
leader in New York Under his advice con
centration of all the forces is now on foot in
this city and elsewhere and the fact that q
most damnahle plot is contemplated can not
he denied. This movement has been on foot
for some time past, hut as the utmost secrecy
has teen observed, IT was not until today
that the above facts leaked out